Rival's First foray into carbon fiber scales - ZT 0560 Tuxedo!

[Rival1314]

Been a while since I posted thanks to a few jobs on the bench. Dove head first into Carbon Fiber this weekend using my own ZT0560, had some pretty good results. Had to try a few different speeds for countersinking the screws, and tons of fine sanding. Thanks to fast14riot for a few pointers in that department. All in all it turned out great. Just went with the inside cut of the CF block as I thought it looked cooler. May mess around with CF patterns on the next run. Would love opinions, pointers, critiques. Those of you that have patterned CF before, i would love to hear your techniques for finishing in the grooves. I sanded this down to 1500 grit....that would be tough if it had an anso, though i guess nice things take time to create. I have enough scaled for this thing now to have an EDC and now my Tuxedo scales

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[bdmicarta]

That looks great. What does the CF scale on the back side look like?

 

[Rival1314]

0560 is one sided....Titanium framelock on the back. The other side of the scale is the standard 2x2 twill, i thought the inside cut had a really nice pattern to it so I faced it out. Will probably make another with the regular CF pattern showing as well as I know most people recognize that as CF.

 

[Komitadjie]

Dang, that came out looking good! Excellent work.

 

[BePrepared]

Holy crap man... can you make me one of those for my OTHER JYD II?

 

[pwet]

i too realy prefer this kind of pattern for CF. not fan pf the standard very square chess board type CF. if looks even cooler when it's rounded/textured and you go in the different layers, gives a very cool random pattern.

 

[bdmicarta]

0560 is one sided....Titanium framelock on the back.

I was kidding- I know they have a pretty side and an ugly side. You made the pretty side look much better, now we need to figure out how to make the ugly side look better.

 

[Rival1314]

Thanks for the compliments so far... In my experience so far CF is.tricky stuff to work with and mistakes r expensive. I take each pimp job seriously as i know how much attention these blades get from their owners...especially in this community! I appreciate any and all feedback, tips on technique are welcome too!